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by JR-Orion » Jun 14, 2012 1:42 pm
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/scien ... wanted=allStone age artists were painting red disks, handprints, clublike symbols and geometric patterns on European cave walls long before previously thought, in some cases 10,000 years earlier, scientists reported on Thursday after completing more reliable dating tests at prominent sites in northwestern Spain. And later-
That makes it the earliest cave art found so far in Europe, perhaps 4,000 years older than the paintings at Grotte Chauvet in France.
Letting the days go by / water flowing underground
Into the blue again / in the silent water
Under the rocks and stones / there is water underground.
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